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15-letter words containing c, u, t, h, r

  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterochthonous — not indigenous; foreign (opposed to autochthonous): heterochthonous flora and fauna.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
  • horticulturally — With respect to horticulture.
  • horticulturists — Plural form of horticulturist.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • lecture theatre — auditorium
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • lithium citrate — a white crystalline solid sometimes used in the treatment of manic-depressive illness and mania. Formula: Li3C6H5O7
  • local authority — council, local government
  • mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • matta echaurren — Roberto Antonio Sebastián [raw-ver-taw ahn-taw-nyaw se-vahs-tyahn] /rɔˈvɛr tɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ ˌsɛ vɑsˈtyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1911–2002, Chilean painter.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • national church — an independent church within a country, usually representing the prevalent religion.
  • neuropathically — In a neuropathic way.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • nonarchitecture — a building not designed according to accepted modes of architecture
  • north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
  • north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • northcountryman — a native or inhabitant of the North of England
  • nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
  • odontorhynchous — (of birds) having toothlike ridges inside the beak
  • okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
  • ornithorhynchus — the platypus.
  • orthodox church — the Christian church comprising the local and national Eastern churches that are in communion with the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople; Byzantine Church.
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • perpetual check — a continuing series of checks resulting in a drawn game because they cannot be halted or evaded without resulting in checkmate or a serious disadvantage.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • photoproduction — the light-induced production of a species of molecule such as a radical or ion
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
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